Sentences with phrase «on elementary school math»

The number of students scoring proficient on elementary school math tests remained flat at 86 percent.

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On occasion, I need speedy quick meals that I can toss together and throw in the oven while I try (I really do try) to help with eighth - grade math and listen to elementary school poetry homework.

This program is a great fit if your elementary or middle school student is on the math fast track and / or needs help with advanced math subjects, homework or tests.

As predicted by state education officials, scores on the first English and math tests given statewide to elementary school students under tougher new learning standards are not very good.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

New York City's new schools chancellor pledged to boost training for elementary math teachers on Tuesday, after a national test found a drop in average math scores for the city's fourth - graders.

At 32 city elementary and middle schools, the average English - math proficiency rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students...

6,687 students 623 classroom teachers 10 schools (one high school, two junior highs, seven elementary) $ 188.8 million 2010 - 11 budget 1 % of students need free or reduced price lunches 97 % students are white or Asian (3 % black or Latino) 83 % of third - graders scored proficient or higher on this year's state's English test; 90 % on math exam.

Our story yesterday on the Obama Administration's proposal to give large bonuses to the best U.S. elementary and secondary school science and math teachers got one important detail wrong: The White House doesn't have to wait for Congress to approve the $ 1 billion price tag to launch its STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Master Teacher Corps.

In line with that recommendation, the Obama Administration has proposed spending $ 60 million on research exploring «evidence - based» approaches to improving math instruction from elementary school through college.

The clearinghouse now houses more than 500 reports that summarize current findings on such topics as math instruction for young children, elementary school writing and helping students with the college application process.

The new research builds on two previous studies that found the two programs benefitted children in early elementary school, boosting third - grade reading and math - test scores and reducing third - grade special education placements.

There is agreement between the public and scientists on one core issue: Both groups believe that science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM) in America's elementary and secondary schools is not performing well.

May 6, 2013 • In elementary school, girls often outperform boys on reading and math tests.

Although elementary schoolers in Los Angeles have made real gains in literacy in recent years, among high - school students, only 23 percent in reading and 34 percent in math meet or exceed the national norm on the Stanford 9.

A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects.

(Disadvantaged high schools were also randomly selected into the program; we focus only on elementary and middle schools since these are the grades for which we can measure math and reading achievement.)

This San Jose, CA elementary school shows improvement on math scores with a blended learning approach

In a draft of a program announcement, the nsf says it will provide some $ 5 million this year to fund three to six major projects that develop programs or materials for teaching math to elementary - school students, with an emphasis on using calculators and computers.

His opening vignette profiles an elementary school in Washington, D.C., that relied on the JiJi game to teach math.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

The interests ranged from kindergarten through grade 12, so some students were learning to become high school math teachers, some were working on middle school social studies, and some of us, like me, were learning about beginning reading in elementary school.

The software provider focuses on elementary and middle school math education with an innovative blending of games and personalized learning.

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

According to the three - year study, which is being conducted by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp., majorities of elementary and middle school science and math teachers in all three states report in surveys that they are making positive changes in the classroom by focusing on their states» academic standards or searching for better teaching methods.

In the program's first year, the bonus program boost to math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such teachers in middle schools).

At the Australian International School (AIS) in Singapore, teachers are using research - informed strategies to support differentiation in maths in the elementary years, with a focus on extending those students who are at the head of the pack.

The Discovering series, which the Seattle district already used in elementary and middle schools, allegedly allows students to learn math principles on their own through «inquiry - based learning.»

A San Jose, CA elementary school shows improvement on math scores with a blended learning approach.

2017 Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching Deadline: Opens in January The Rosenthal Prize, from the National Museum of Mathematics, recognizes «hands - on math teaching in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.»

NUMBERS is an interactive, hands - on mathematics professional development offering for elementary and middle school math teachers.

In elementary schools, TTI had a positive impact on math and reading test scores.

She compares the approach to the way many elementary schools teach reading — by offering 83 minutes of math instruction on most days and teaching students by grade level and by ability.

The quality of teacher training will be crucial to the success of the new Common Core State Standards in math, educators say, and the pressure is on districts to give elementary school teachers the skills they'll need to provide students with a firm foundation in early arithmetic.

The report finds that approximately 62 % of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on English language arts and or math, while 44 % of districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch or recess.

It focused particularly on the performance of about 1,000 elementary and middle school teachers for whom math and English scores were available.

During the last four years of her tenure, special education student proficiency on state reading and math assessments increased between 13 and 34 points at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

• On the PARCC this year, NPS students achieved a more than six point gain in ELA, a 3 point gain in math, and especially noteworthy gains in elementary schools and Algebra.

To earn their degrees, elementary - school teachers are also asked to show that their students earned, on average, 70 percent mastery on a year's worth of state or Common Core Standards in another subject, usually math.

Because DreamBox Learning ® Math aligned so closely to D51's new instructional model and standards, math content facilitator Megan Bennet recommended piloting the program on a limited basis in Mesa County Valley elementary schools.

The schools range from back - to - basics elementary schools where students wear uniforms and drill on math and reading to «hippie» - style schools using open - ended, project - based approaches, says Kaaren Heikes, executive director of the Northwest Center for Educational Options, an Oregon nonprofit center that supports charter schools.

The Times used the approach to analyze seven years of test scores in math and English to estimate the impact individual elementary school teachers had on their students.

Christine is an educational consultant who works with schools and districts around the country on elementary and middle school math curriculum, test savvy strategies, technology integration for incorporating and reinforcing 21st century skills and mathematical best practices.

The combination of KIPP pre-K and early elementary school had «positive and statistically significant impacts on reading and math achievement» by second grade, researchers found.

The elementary schools reached 87 % passing math and 85 % passing reading on standardized tests in the third year of Flippen implementation.

The studies regarding single - sex classrooms in elementary schools often boast shockingly positive results: a 2008 Stetson University study in Florida found that teaching single - sex math classes in fourth grade increased proficiency scores on the FCAT by 27 percent for girls and 30 percent for boys.

Rachana Bhatt and Cory Koedel have studied the effect of elementary math curricula by matching schools on baseline characteristics and comparing performance on the test in Indiana.

Based on our work with schools and the district, we believe only a third of elementary schools are using fully aligned curricula for English Language Arts and only one in five high schools are using aligned math curricula.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.